On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 09:01:12AM -0700, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote: > This patchset expands the KVP (Key Value Pair) functionality to > implement the mechanism to GET/SET IP addresses in the guest. This > functionality is used in Windows Server 2012 to implement VM > replication functionality. The way IP configuration information > is managed is distro specific. Based on the feedback I have gotten > from Olaf, Greg, Steve, Ben and Mairus, I have chosen to seperate > distro specific code from this patch-set. Most of the GET operation > can be implemented in a way that is completely distro independent and > I have implemented that as such and is included in this patch-set. > Some of the attributes that can only be fetched in a distro > dependent way as well the mechanism for configuring an interface > (the SET operation) that is clearly distro specific is to be > implemented via external scripts that will be invoked via the KVP > code. We define here the interface to these scripts. > > Adding support for IP injection resulted in some changes to the > protocol between the user level daemon and the kernel driver. > These changes have been implemented in way that would retain > compatibility with older daemons. I would like to thank Olaf and > Greg for pointing out the compatibility issue.
Due to this being the middle of the merge window, I will not be able to look at this until after 3.6-rc1 is out. greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
